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School Laws of Ohio 



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GENERAL SCHOOL LAWS 



School-houses 
and libraries : 



lyibrary tax, and 
how expended. 



-3- . [House Bill No. 165.] 

AN ACT 

To amend section 4002 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. 
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 

Section 1. That section 4002 be amended so as to 
read as follows : 

Sec. 4002. For the purpose of increasing and main- 
taining the public library in said city, and the territory 
thereto attached for school purposes, such library board 
may levy annually a tax of six-tenths of one mill on each 
dollar valuation of the taxable property of the city, and the 
territory thereto attached for school purposes, to be levied, 
collected and paid in the same manner as are school taxes 
of the city; all money appropriated, received or collected 
by tax for the library, shall be expended under the direction 
of the library board in purchasing such books, pamphlets, 
papers, magazines, periodicals, journals and other property 
as may be deemed suitable for the public library, and in 
payment of all other charges and expenses, includ- 
ing compensation of the librarian, assistants and help that 
may be incurred in increasing and maintaining the library, 
and all claims against said fund shall be approved by the 
president and secretary of said library board and paid upon 
the warrant of the auditor of the board of education in the 
manner now provided by law for the payment of claims 
against said city. 

Section 2. That said section 4002 of the Revised Repeals 
Statutes, as amended May 16, 1894, be and the same is 
hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect from and after 
its passage. 

A. G. REYNOLDS, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
JNO. A. CALDWELL, 

President of the Senate. 

Passed February 27, 1900. 



[House Bill No. 229.] 
AN ACT 

To amend section 3901 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio so a? to 
allow certain school districts to issue bonds by submitting the 
question to a vote of the people. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
Section 1. That section 3991 of the Revised Statutes 
of the state of Ohio be and the same is hereby amended so 
as to read as follows : 



School-houst" 
and libraries 



When aud how 
question of tax- 
levy submitted 
to voters. 



Repeals, etc. 



Sec. 3991. When the board of education of any dis- 
trict determines that it is necessary for the proper accom- 
modation of the schools of such district to purchase a site or 
sites and erect a school house or school houses thereon, or 
to do either, or when it shall become known to a board of 
education that the money provided for the purchase of a 
site or sites and the erection of a school house or school 
houses is not sufficient therefor, and such board ascertains 
that the purchase of such site or sites and the erection and 
furnishing of such school house or school houses, or either, 
or the completion of a partially built or unfurnished school 
house or school houses for which a sufficient sum of money 
has not been provided, will require a greater tax upon the 
property of such district than the board is authorized by 
this title to levy, and that to provide means therefor it 
will be necessary to issue bonds, it shall make an estimate 
of the probable amount of money required for such pur- 
poses, or either of them, and at a general election, or a 
special election called for that purpose, shall submit to 
the electors of the district the question of levying taxes for 
such purposes or either of them, and the further questions 
whether the levy shall be made from year to year there- 
after, and what amount shall be levied each year until the 
actual cost of such site or sites, the erection of such school 
bouse or school houses, or completion or furnishing or re- 
furnishing of same or either of them, is raised; and ten 
day's notice of such submission shall be given by the board 
by posters put up in five of the most public places in the 
district, which shall state the time, place and object of 
the election. 

Section 2. That original section 3991 is hereby 
repealed and this act shall take eflPect and be in force 
from and after its passage. 

A. G. REYNOLDS, 
. ., Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

JNO. A. CALDWELL, 

President of the Senate. 

Passed March 16, 1900. 33G 



I/Cvying taxes • 



Disposition of 
surplus under 
Dow tax. 



[House Bill No. 323.] 

AN ACT 

To further supplement section 2834 of the Revised Statutes of the 
State of Ohio as enacted 93 O. L. , 172. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
Section 1. That section 2834 of the Revised Statutes 
of the state of Ohio be further supplemented as follows : 

Sec. 2834(/. Whenever there is in the treasury of any 
city, village, hamlet, cpunty or township any surplus arising 
under an act entitled "An act providing against the evils 
resulting from the traffic in intoxicating liquors," passed 



May 14, 1886, 83 O. L., 157, which surplus is not needed 
for the purpose named in section 9 of said act, such surplus 
may be, at any time, transferred to any other fund, includ- 
ing school fund, by an order of the proper authorities 
entered on their minutes. 

Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in force 
from and after its passage. 

J. B. SNYDER, 
Speaker pro tern, of the House of Representatives. 
JNO. A. CALDWELL, 

President of the Senate. 
Passed March 21, 1900. 47G 



[House Bill No. m.] 

AN ACT 

To supplement section 3946 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio and 
authorizing and requiring the division of funds upon the for- 
mation of special and village school districts. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 

Section 1. That section 3946 be and the same is {^"ts^"^""^'^" 
hereby supplemented with 3946a as follows : 

Sec. 3946a. When a special or village school district outy of town- 

r 1 1 • 1- • 1 11 ship treasurer 

IS created the treasurer of the tow^nship district shall pay towards treasur- 
to the treasurer of such newly created district such relative createT^b^dis- 
portion of surplus money in the treasury of the township *"'^^- 
district as the valuation of the created district bears to the 
valuation of the township, and also a like relative portion 
of the levy, or levies, existing at the time such district is 
created as said levy or levies come into his hands. 

Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in force 
from and after its passage. 

J. B. SNYDER, 
Speaker pro tern, of the House of Representatives. 
JNO. A. CALDWELL, 

President of the Senate. 
Passed March 22, 1900. 



[House Bill No. 396.] 

AN ACT 

To amend section 3959. Revised Statutes of Ohio. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 

Section 1. That section 3959, Revised Statutes of school funds: 
Ohio, be amended so as to read as follows : 



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Maximum of 
levy in Cincin- 
nati. 



Cleveland. 



All other district 
except — 

Certain Hamil- 
ton county and 
all special and 
village districts. 



When and for 
what purposes 
greater tax may 
be levied. 



Repeals, etc. 



Sec. ^>959. Such estimate and levy shall not exceed, 
in cities of the first grade of the first class, three and one- 
fourth mills, provided, however, that the boards of educa- 
tion in said cities may levy one mill additional for every 
five thousand pupils over and above twenty-five thousand 
enrolled in the public schools of said cities, which levy, 
however, shall in no case exceed four and one-tenth mills; 
and in cities of the second grade of the first class such 
estimate and levy shall not exceed seven mills on the dollar 
of valuation of taxable property ; provided, however, that 
boards of education in cities of the second grade of the 
first class may levy, in addition to the seven mills afore- 
said, a tax" of not to exceed one mill on the dollar of 
valuation of taxable [property] within said district which 
said levy shall be used for the purchase of school house 
sites and the erection of school buildings thereon and for 
no other purpose whatever, and for the purpose of paying 
for such sites or for the construction of such buildings such 
boards of education may issue certificates of indebtedness 
in anticipation of such levy, payable at such times not 
exceeding one year from date of issue as they may desig- 
nate, but bearing no interest before maturity. And in 
all [other] districts, except those hereinafter named, such 
estimate and levy shall not exceed seven mills on each 
dollar of valuation of taxable property ; provided, however, 
that in counties containing a city of the first grade of the 
first class, in districts outside such city in which a high 
school is maintained, and in all special and village districts 
of any county in the state, such estimate and levy shall not 
exceed ten mills on each dollajr of valuation of taxable 
property ; but a greater tax than is authorized above, except 
in city districts of the first class, may be levied for either of 
the purposes specified in section 3958 if the proposition to 
make such levy shall have been first submitted by the board 
of education to a vote of the electors of the school district, 
under a resolution prescribing the time, place and manner 
of voting on the same, and approved by two-thirds of those 
voting on the proposition, notice of which election must be 
given by publication of the resolution for three consecutive 
weeks prior thereto in some newspaper published and of 
general circulation in the district or by posting copies thereof 
in five of the most conspicuous places in the district, for 
C-- like period if no such paper is published therein. 

Section 2. Said original section 3959 is hereby 
repealed and this act shall take eflfect and be in force from 
and after its passage. 

J. B. SNYDER, 
Speaker pro teiii. of the House of Representatives. 
JNO. A. CALDWELL, 

President of the Senate. 

Passed March 22, 1900. 



[House Bill No. 415.] 

AN ACT 

To amend section 3951 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio,, as 
amended March 9, 1896, and appropriating the increased levy 
therein provided. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
Section 1. That section 3951 of the Revised Statutes 
of Ohio as amended March 9, 1896, be amended so as to 
read as follows : 

Sec. 3951. For the purpose of affording the advantages 
of a free education to all the youth of the state, there shall 
be levied annually a tax on the grand list of the taxable prop- 
erty of the state, which shall be collected in the same man- 
ner as other state taxes and the proceeds of which shall con- 
stitute "the state common school fund ;" and for the purpose 
of higher, agricultural and industrial education, including 
manual training, there shall be levied and collected in the 
same manner, a tax on the grand list of taxable property 
of the state, which shall constitute "the Ohio State Univer- 
sity fund." The rate of such levy in each case shall be 
designated by the general assembly at least once in two 
years ; and if the general assembly shall fail to designate 
the rate for any year, the same shall be for "the state com- 
mon school fund," one mill; and for the "Ohio State Univer- 
sity fund" fifteen one-hundredths of one mill, for the years 
1900 and 1901, and thereafter one-tenth of one mill upon 
each dollar of valuation of such taxable property ; provided, 
that the five one-hundredths of a mill increase of levy for 
the Ohio State University fund" herein provided shall be 
used solely for the erection and equipment of buildings for 
said university. 

Section 2. There is hereby appropriated from the 
moneys raised or coming into the treasury from the increase 
of the levy for the Ohio State University herein provided, 
for the last three quarters of the fiscal year ending Nov. 15, 

1900, and the first quarter of the fiscal year ending Nov. 
15, 1901, the sum of ninety thousand dollars, or so much as 
may come into the treasury from said increased levy ; and 
for the last three quarters of the fiscal year ending Nov. 15, 

1901, and the first quarter of the fiscal year ending Nov. 
15, 1902, the sum of ninety thousand dollars, or so much 
as may come into the treasury from said increased levy. 

Section 3. Said section 3951 of the Revised Statutes 
of Ohio, as amended March 9, 1896, is hereby repealed, 
and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after 
its passage. 

A. G. REYNOLDS, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
JNd A. CALDWELL, 

President of the Senate. 
Passed March 29. 1900. 



School funds 



" The state com- 
mon school 
fund '' and " the 
Ohio State Uni- 
versity fund." 



Purpose of in- 
crease of levy. 



Appropriation of 
increase levy. 



Repeals, etc. 



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may grant life 
certificates. 



[Senate Bill No. 74.] 

AN ACT 

Providing for life certificates of teachers in city districts of the first 
grade of the first class. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
Examiners: SECTION 1. That boards of examiners in city districts 

In cities of the .,_ ,.,_ , .,,.. -1 , 

first grade of the 01 the hrst grade of the first class,, m addition to the grades 
of^examTne?s^^'^ of Certificates named in section 4081, may grant permanent 
certificates of each class issued by them, which shall be valid 
for life within the district wherein granted ; these certificates 
to be conditioned upon the applicant therefor having had 
fifty months successful experience in teaching, at least thirty 
of which shall have been in the schools of said city district, 
and in addition to the subjects mentioned in section 4074, 
said applicant shall give evidence of satisfactory knowledge 
of the history of education, science of education and psy- 
chology. Applicants for permanent certificates under this 
act shall pay to the clerk of said board of examiners a fee of 
three (|3) dollars. 

Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in force 
on and after its passage. 

A. G. REYNOLDS, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
JNO. A. CALDWELL, 

President of the Senate. 
Passed March 29, 1900. 



Classification of 
districts, etc.: 



City districts of 
the first class. 



city districts of 
the first, second 
and third grades 
of the first class. 



[House Bill No. 740.] 
AN ACT 

To amend section 3886 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended 
April 21, 1898. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
Section 1. That section 3886 of the Revised Statutes 
of Ohio, as amended April 21, 1898 (93 O. L., 165), be 
amended so as to read as follows : 

Sec. 3886. Each city having a population of ten 
thousand or more, together with the territory attached to 
it for school purposes, if any, and excluding the territory 
within its corporate limits detached for school purposes, 
if any, shall constitute a school district to be styled a city 
district of the first class ; cities of the first, second and 
third grades of the first class, together with the territory 
outside of their respective corporate limits, if any, attached 
to them tor school purposes, and excluding the territory 
within their corporate limits, detached for school purposes, 
if any, shall constitute respectively school districts to be 
styled city districts of the first, second and third grades 



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'of the first class; and each district that has heretofore 
been constituted a city district of the first class, shall remain 
such, except as herein otherwise provided. 

Section 2. That said section 3886, as amended April Repeals 
1898, be and the same is hereby repealed. 
Section 3. This act shall be in force from and after 
passage. 

A. G. REYNOLDS, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
JNO. A. CALDWELL, 

President of the Senate. 
Passed April 12, 1900. 



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[House Bill No. 875.] 

AN ACT 

To amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act for the establish- 
ment and maintenance of public libraries in certain cities of 
the first class," passed April 12, 1888, O. L. v. 85, p. 209 
(sec. 4002-19, Revised Statutes), and to repeal supplementary 
section la of said act, passed March 12, 1889 (sec. 4002-20, 
Revised Statutes.) 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 

Section 1. That said section 1 of said above entitled schooi-houses 
act be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 

Sec. 1. That in any city of the third grade of the first Establishment 
class, the city council may, by a resolution passed by a hc library Hax 
majority of the members elected thereto, declare it to be ^o'' ^^^^ary. 
■essential to the interests of such city, to establish and 
maintain therein a public library and reading room. That 
thereafter the said city council shall, annually, levy a tax 
•of thirty-five one-hundredths (35-100) of one mill on the 
dollar on the taxable property of such city for that purpose, 
to be called the library fund; and which levy shall be cer- 
tified to the county auditor of the county, and by him 
placed on the tax duplicate of the county and collected as 
■other taxes. 

Section 2. That said section 1 and said supplemen- Repeals, etc. 
tary section la be, and the same are, hereby repealed ; and 
this act shall take effect on its passage. 

A. G. REYNOLDS, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
JNO. A. CALDWELL, 

President of the Senate. 

Passed April 14, 1900. 



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Schools and at- 
tendance en- 
forced : 

Examination for 
entering high 
school. 



Tuition to be 
paid by board of 
education. 



Repeals, etc. 



[House Bill No. 190.] 

AN ACT 

To amend section 4029-1 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 

Section 1. That section 4029-1 of the Revised Stat- 
utes of the state of Ohio be amended to read as follows : 

[Sec. 4029-1.] Each board of county school examiners 
shall hold examinations of pupils of the subdistricts and 
special districts, in the subjects of orthography, reading,, 
writing, arithmetic, geography, English grammar. United 
States history, and physiology. Two such examinations 
shall be held at such place or places and on such dates as 
the board of county examiners may determine, and shall 
be of such a character as shall permit the successful appli- 
cants, upon the payment of tuition, to enter any high school 
in the county in which the appHcant resides, or in any 
adjoining county. The tuition of such successful applicant 
shall be paid by the board of education of the township 
or the special district in which such applicant resides, pro- 
vided that there is no high school maintained and sup- 
ported by the township or special district in which such 
pupil resides, where such pupil may attend without paying 
tuition. 

Section 2. Said original section 4029-1 is hereby 
repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from 
and after its passage. 

A. G. REYNOLDS, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
JNO. A. CALDWELL, 

President of the Senate, 

Passeel April 14, 1900. 



[House Bill No. 556.] 
AN ACT 



Township and 
special districts: 



How special dis- 
trict abandoned. 



Notice of elec- 
tion. 



To amend section 3926 (as amended 93 O. L. , page 74), of the 
Revised Statutes of Ohio. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
Section 1. That section 3926 (as amended 93 O. L., 
page 74), be amended so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 3926. When the electors of a special or village 
district desire to abandon their organization, and become 
a part of the township district of the township in which 
such special or village district is located, they shall make 
the change in, the following manner: Written or printed 
notices shall be posted in at least five of the most public 
places in the district, signed by a majority of the members 



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of the board of education, or one of the board, and at least 
six resident electors of the district, requesting the qualified 
electors thereof to assemble on a day, and at an hour and 
place, designated in the notices, which notices shall be 
posted at least ten days prior to the day designated in 
them, then and there to vote for or against such change; 
the electors, when assembled at the time and place desig- 
nated in the notices, shall appoint a chairman and two 
clerks, who shall be judges of the election, which shall 
continue at least two hours ; those in favor of the proposed 
change shall have written or printed on their ballots the 
words, ''School — change," and those opposed thereto the 
words, "School — no change ;" and a majority of the ballots 
cast shall determine the question whether the change be 
made; the judges shall within five days after the election 
make due return thereof to the board of education of the 
district; and if a majority of the votes cast are in favor of 
the change, the board shall immediately certify that fact to 
the township board, which shall thereupon assume juris- 
diction of the territory, property, and affairs of the special 
district, and thereafter treat such district as a subdistrict of 
the township district. Provided, however, that in a spe- 
cial district, which has been created from two or more 
joint subdistricts, subdistricts or parts of subdistricts if 
the electors of the territory which formerly composed any 
one or more of such joint subdistricts, subdistricts or parts 
of subdistricts desire to withdraw from the special district 
organization and become a part of the township in which 
they are situated, the change may be made by a majority 
vote of the electors of the special district except that posted 
notices signed by six resident electors shall be sufficient to 
call such election. 

Section 2. That said section 3926 (as amended 93 O. 
L., page 74), is hereby repealed, and this act shall take 
effect from and after its passage. 

A. G. REYNOLDS, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

JNO. A. CALDWELL, 

President of the Senate. 
Passed April 16, 1900. 



Judges of elec- 
tion ; how 
chosen. 



Returns of elec- 
tion. 

Township board 
to have jurisdic- 
tion of territory, 
etc. 



Withdrawal 
from special 
district. • 



Repeals, etc. 



[House Bill No. 166.] 

AN ACT 

To regulate the employment of minors in the mines of the state 
of Ohio, and to amend section 302 of the Revised Statutes of 
Ohio, passed April 21, 1898 (O. L. vol. 93, p. 164.) 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 

Section 1. That section 302 be so amended as to inspector of 
read as follows: 



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Etnployment of 
minors ; record 
of same; inspec- 
tion of record. 



Repeals, etc. 



Sec. 302. No child under fifteen years of age shall 
be allowed to work in any mine, during the school term of 
the public schools in the district in which such minor 
resides, and no child under fourteen years of age shall be 
employed in any mine during the vacation interim of the 
public schools in the school district in which such minor 
resides, and in all cases of minors applying for work the 
agent of such mine shall see that the provisions of this 
section are not violated; he shall also keep a record of all 
minors employed by him, or by any person employed in 
said mines, giving the name, age, place of birth, parents' 
name and residence, with character of employment, and 
he shall demand from such minor proof that he has com- 
plied with the requirements of the school laws; and it 
shall be the duty of the mine inspector to inspect such 
record and to report to the chief inspector of mines the 
number of minors employed in or about such mines and to 
enforce the provisions of this section. 

Section 2. That said section 302 of the Revised Stat- 
utes of Ohio, passed April 21, 1898 (O. L., 93, page 1C4), 
be and the same is hereby repealed, and this act shall take 
effect and be in force from and after its passage. 

A. G. REYNOLDS, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives, 
JNO. A. CALDWELL, 

President of the Senate. 

Passed April 14, 1900. 



School-houses 
and libraries : 



Residents of 
Hamilton coun- 
ty entitled to 
use of city 
library. 



Tax for library 
purposes in Cin- 
cinnati. 



[House Bill No. 870.] 
AN ACT 

To amend sections 3999a and 3999c, and to supplement section 3999 
of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended April 21, 1898 
(93 O, L., 192), with sectional numbering indicated. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
Section 1, That sections 3999a and 3999c of the 
Revised Statutes of Ohio be amended so as to read as 
follows : 

Sec. 3999a. Each and every resident of the county 
within which is situated any city of the first grade of the 
first class, having therein established a public library, shall 
be entitled to the free use of such library, reading rooms 
and any branch or department of the same, and all the 
privileges thereof, upon such terms and conditions not 
inconsistent herewith, as the board of trustees of such 
library may prescribe. 

Sec. 3999c. For the purpose of increasing, maintain- 
ing and managing the public library in cities of the first 
grade of the first class, for which a board of trustees 
shall have been appointed, as provided in section 3999, the 



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said board of trustees may levy annually a tax of not exceed- 
ing five-tenths of a mill on each dollar valuation of the 
taxable property of the county wherein is situated such 
city, to be assessed, collected and paid in the same manner 
as are other taxes levied throughout the county. - Said levy 
shall be certified by said board of trustees to the auditor of 
the county in which said city is situated, and shall be placed 
by said auditor on the tax duplicate and collected as other 
taxes. The money realized from said levy, and all moneys 
received or collected by said trustees for the library, shall 
be placed in the treasury of said county, subject to the 
order of said board of trustees of said library. Said fund 
shall be known as the library fund of said county, of which 
the county treasurer shall be the custodian, and no money 
shall be drawn therefrom, except upon the requisition of the 
board of trustees of said library, certified by the president 
and secretary of said board, directed to the county auditor, 
who shall draw his warrant upon the county treasurer 
therefor. Any part of said funds unexpended during any 
year shall remain to the credit of said library fund. 

Section 2. That section 3999 of the Revised Statutes 
of Ohio, as amended April 21, 1898 (93 O. L., 192), be sup- 
plemented with sectional numbering as follows : 

Sec. 3999^. No member of any of the boards exer- who ineligible 
cising the power of appointment of the trustees of the ffbS^board.^ 
public library, as provided in section 3999, shall be ap- 
pointed or elected a member of said library board. 

Section 3. That original section 3999a and 3999c as Repeals, 
passed April 21, 1898 (93 O. L., 192), be and the same are 
hereby repealed. 

Section 4. This act shall take effect and be in force 
from and after its passage. 

A. G. REYNOLDS, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
JNO. A. CALDWELL, 

President of the Senate. 

Passed April 14, 1900. 



[House Bill No. 877.] 

AN ACT 

To amend section 4105 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 

Section 1. That section 4105 of the Revised Statutes SSU'efsitfe""! 
of Ohio be amended so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 4105. That the provisions of this chapter shall provisions of 
be applicable to cities of the third grade of the first class, ab?^t"cify^of " 
except that the rate of taxation to be assessed and levied, Toledo, 
shall not exceed one-half of one mill upon the taxable prop- 



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Repeals, etc. 



erty of such cities; and except that the board of directors 
or trustees shall consist of five members and shall be filled 
by appointment from persons of approved learning, dis- 
cretion and fitness for the office, by the board of educa- 
tion and confirmed by the common council in the city in 
which such university shall be located; such appointments 
shall be made within thirty days after the passage of this 
act, and one member shall be appointed for one year, one 
member for two years, one member for three years, one 
member for four years, and one member for five years, and 
in April, 1901, and annually thereafter one member shall 
be appointed for a term of five years. The members of the 
university board of directors or trustees in cities of the 
third grade of the first class, in office when this act takes 
effect, shall continue in office until the board herein pro- 
vided for shall be appointed and organized, at which time 
the powers and duties of such former board shall cease and 
determine, and their offices thenceforth shall be and are 
hereby abolished; and the directors or trustees appointed 
under this section shall serve until their successors are ap- 
pointed and qualified, and any vacancy which may occur 
in the board of directors or trustees from resignation, re- 
moval, death or other cause, shall be filled by appointment 
in the same m.anner as is provided for the appointment of 
director or trustees in this section, for the unexpired term of 
such director or trustee. 

Section 2. That said original section 4105 is hereby 
repealed; and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with 
this act, are hereby declared void as to such inconsistency 
but not otherwise; and this act shall take effect on its 
passage. 

A. G. REYNOLDS, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
JNO. A. CALDWELL, 

President of the Senate. 

Passed April 16, 1900. 



Schools 



Appointment of 
teacher, etc. 



[Senate Bill No. 338.] 
AN ACT 

To amend and supplement an act entitled "An act to amend section 
3897 of the Revised Statutes, and supplementary thereto," 
passed April 14th, 1896. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
Section 1. That sections 3897a, 3897&, 3897J and 

3897/1, of the Revised Statutes, be amended so as to read 

as follows : 

Sec. 3897a. The superintendent of the public schools 

of said city district of the first grade of the first class shall 



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appoint all the teachers of said schools by and with the con- 
sent of the board of education, which appointments shall 
be for a period of one year, when made the second time 
shall be for a period of two years, and when made the 
third time shall be for a period of four years ; all teachers 
who shall have served seven successive years in the public 
schools of said city district, whether before or after, or 
partly before or after the passage of this act, shall when 
appointed by the said superintendent, and confirmed by 
said board, hold their positions until removed by death, 
resignation or for cause, subject, however, to. the provis- 
ions and requirements of sections 4074 and 4081 of the 
Revised Statutes and all other sections and provisions of 
the Revised Statutes relating to board of examiners and 
their powers and duties; provided, however, that any Removal of 

1 r • 1 1 1 ' f ' > .7 teacher upon 

teacher oi said schools may at any time be removed by said charges, 
superintendent, subject to the approval of a majority of said 
board of education, for cause, upon written charges, which 
-charges, when filed, shall be investigated by said board of 
education, or by a committee of said board appointed for 
such purpose, and the decision of said board of education 
shall be final. Whenever in said city districts of the first Appointment of 
grade of the first class the high schools of said city district high schools 
shall or at any time hereafter may be, under the control 
and management of a union board of high schools, or of any 
other separate board, the superintendent of public schools 
of said city district shall appoint all the teachers of said high 
schools, by and with the consent of the majority of the 
members of said union board of high schools, or any other 
separate board of said district, which appointments shall 
be for a period not exceeding one year ; provided, how- 
•ever, that all teachers of said high schools who shall have 
served five successive years in the public schools of said 
city district or in the high schools of said city district, 
whether before or after', or partly before or after the passage 
•of this act, or both, when appointed by said superintendent 
and confirmed by said union board or other separate board 
having the control of said high schools, shall hold their 
positions until removed by death, resignation or for cause, 
subject, however, to the provisions and requirements of 
sections 4074 and 4081 of the Revised Statutes and all other 
sections and provisions of the Revised Statutes relating to 
boards of examiners and their powers and duties ; provided, fchSoula^hetf^ 
however, that any teacher of said high schools may at any 
time be removed by said superintendent, subject to the 
approval of the majority of said union board of high schools, 
or other separate board, for cause upon written charges, 
which charges, when filed, shall be investigated by said union 
board, of high schools, or other separate board of said city 
district, or by a committee of said board appointed for such 
purpose, and a decision of such union board, or other sepa- 
rate board having control of said high schools, shall be final ; 



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When board 
shall appoint 
high school 
teachers. 



Teachers' pen- 
sion fund. 



Retirement and 
pension of 
teachers. 



'• Teacher" de- 
fined. 



Amount of 
pension. 



provided, further, that whenever the power to appoint 
teachers in the public schools of such city district of the 
first grade of the first class is not given by the law of the 
state to the superintendent of the public schools or not 
given to him by the board of education of such city dis- 
trict in pursuance of the law, then said union board of high 
schools, or other separate board, shall appoint such teachersr 
in the high schools to serve as above provided, with power 
of removal as above provided. The provisions of this sec- 
tion relating to the appointment and terms of teachers 
shall not apply to the appointment or term of any super- 
intendent or superintendents of schools of such city districts. 

Sec. 3897^. In order to create a fund to be known as- 
the ''school teachers' pension fund," two dollars a month- 
lor each and every school month shall be deducted by the 
proper officers from the salaries paid to all teachers of 
said city district of the first grade of the first class, includ- 
ing the teachers of the high schools of said city district, 
and paid into the city treasury to the credit of said fund, 
to be used exclusively for pensions for teachers as herein- 
after provided. All moneys received from donations, leg- 
acies, gifts, bequests or from any other source shall also- 
be paid into said fund or into a permanent fund, only the- 
interest of which may be applied to the payment of pen- 
sions, but no taxes shall be levied or any other public- 
moneys be appropriated for said fund, except as herein^ 
provided. 

Sec. SS97d. Said board of education of said city dis- 
trict and said union board or other separate board having 
the control and management of the high schools of said 
city district shall each of them have power by a majority 
vote of all the members composing said board to retire on* 
account of physical or mental disability any male or female 
teacher under such board who shall have taught for a 
period aggregating twenty (20) years, whether before or 
after, or partly before or after the passage of this act ; pro- 
vided, however, that three-fifths of said period of service 
shall have been rendered by said beneficiary in the public- 
schools or the high schools of said city district, or in the 
public schools or high schools of the county in which said' 
city district is located. The term "teacher" under this act 
shall include the superintendent of schools, all superin- 
tendents of instruction, principals, special teachers, and 
teachers employed by either of said boards. Any teacher 
shall have the right to retire and become a beneficiary 
under this act who shall have taught for a period aggre- 
gating thirty (30) years, whether before or after, or partly 
before or after the passage of this act ; provided that three- 
fifths of said term of service shall have been rendered in the- 
public schools or the high schools of said city district, or 
in the public schools or high schools of the county in 
which said city district is located. Each teacher so retired" 
or retiring shall be entitled during the remainder of his 
oir her natural life to receive as pension, annually, the* 



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sum of ten (|10) dollars, for each and every year of service 
rendered as teacher, but in no event shall such pension paid 
to any teacher exceed the sum of five hundred (|500) dol- 
lars in any one year, and said pension shall be paid monthly 
during the school year; but in no event shall such pension 
be paid to any teacher until such teacher shall contribute 
or shall- have contributed to said fund a sum equal to 
twenty (|20) dollars a year for each and every year of 
service rendered as teacher, but in no event shall this sum 
exceed six hundred (|600) dollars; but should any teacher 
retiring be unable to pay the full amount of this sum before 
receiving a pension, the board of trustees shall, in paying 
the annual pension to such retiring teacher, withhold on 
each month's payment twenty per cent, thereof, until the 
lull amount as above provided shall have been thus con- 
tributed to the fund ; provided, further, that if said pension 
fund shall at any time be insufficient to meet the pensions 
so provided for that during the period that such fund is 
insufficient to make such payments, the amount in said 
fund during said period shall be pro-rated between the 
parties entitled thereto. No payments shall be made to 
any beneficiary, nor shall any teacher retired or retiring 
be entitled to any payment under the provisions of this act 
prior to July 1st, 1899. 

Sec. 3897/1. Any teacher who shall resign or be re- of^^e'fg^"at?on^ 
moved for cause as aforesaid, shall upon application within or renewal, 
three (3) months after date of such resignation or removal 
be entitled to receive one-half of the total amount paid by 
such teacher into such fund. In case of the death of anv Heirs, legatees 

1 1 • 1 • r 1 J % °'' assigns of 

teacher, the heirs, legatees or assigns of the aeceased " 
teacher shall be entitled to receive one-half of the total 
amount paid by such teacher into such fund, upon appli- 
cation therefor with proof of claim to the satisfaction of the 
board of trustees. 

Section 2. That said act entitled "An act to amend 
section 3897 of the Revised Statutes, and supplementary 
thereto," passed April 14th, be supplemented as follows : 

Sec. 3897z. The board of trustees shall make such ^^l^^^"^^ ^^^^~ 
rules and regulations as it may deem expedient or neces- 
sary for its government. 

Section 3. That Sections 3897a, 3897^, 3897J and 
3897A of an act entitled "An act to amend section 3897 of 
the Revised Statutes, and supplementary thereto," passed 
April 14th, 1896, be and the same are hereby repealed. 

Section 4. This act shall take effect and be in force 
from and after its passage. 

A. G. REYNOLDS, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
JNO. A. CALDWELL, 

President of the Senate. 

Passed April 16, 1900. 



deceased teacher 
entitled to half 
amount paid. 



Repeals, etc. 



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Commissioner 
of schools : 



Duty of Commis- 
sioner on com- 
plaint of fraudu- 
lent use of 
money, etc. 



Appointment of 
accountant to 
investigate 
charges. 



Bxaminer enti- 
tled to stenogra- 
pher. 



Powers and du- 
ties of examiner. 



[Senate Bill No. 23.] 

AN ACT 

To amend sections 364 and 365 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 

Section 1. That sections 364 and 365 be amended 
so as to read as follows : 

Sec. 364. When a complaint is made to the state 
commissioner of common schools, in writing, verified by 
the affidavits of at least three freeholders and taxpayers, 
resident of any school district in the state, and bearing the 
certificate of the auditor or auditors of the respective 
county, or counties, in which said district is located, that 
said affiants are freeholders and taxpayers, alleging that 
they have good reason to and do believe that any portion 
of the school fund of such district has been expended, or 
is being expended, contrary to law, or has been fraudu- 
lently, unlawfully, or corruptly used, or misapplied, by 
any of the officers of such district, or that there have been 
fraudulent entries in the books, accounts, vouchers, or 
settlement sheets thereof, by any such officers, or that any 
of such officers have not made settlements of their account 
as required by law, or whenever, from information filed in 
his office, or from other cause, the state commissioner of 
common schools may deem it necessary for the safety and 
security of "^he public funds of any school district, situated 
in the state of Ohio, he is authorized and required to ap- 
point some trustworthy and competent accountant, for the 
purpose of investigating such complaint, or allegations, who 
after being duly commissioned by said state commissioner of 
common schools and sworn by any person authorized by law 
to administer oaths, shall forthwith visit such school dis- 
trict and take possession of all the books, papers, vouchers 
and accounts of such district, and investigate the truth of 
the allegations of such complaint, and the condition of the 
school fund of such district; and the several officers of 
such school district, on the application of such examiner, 
shall immediately place in his possession all their books, 
accounts, contracts, vouchers, and other papers having ref- 
erence to the receipts and disbursements of the school 
funds; and the county auditor and treasurer shall give 
such examiner free access to all' the records, books, papers, 
vouchers, and accounts of their respective offices having 
reference to the object of such investigation, and said ex- 
aminer is authorized, by and with the written consent of 
the prosecuting attorney, or the judge of the court of com- 
mon pleas of the county in which such district is located, 
to require the assistance of the official stenographer -of 
said county, in making such examination; and said ste- 
nographer shall receive only such compensation and in the 
manner provided in section 478 Revised Statutes, upon 
the certificate of the prosecuting attorney of said county. 

Sec. 365. Such examiner shall have authority to call 
before him forthwith, upon written notice, and examine 



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witnesses, under oath, to be administered by him; and he 
shall immediately after completing such invesigation, re- 
port in writing, in duplicate, setting forth the condition 
of the books, vouchers, and accounts of such district, tne 
amount of school funds received for any and all purposes, 
and from whatever source, the amount expended, and for 
what, and the amount actually in the treasury, one copy 
of which report he shall file in the office of the clerk of 
the court of common pleas of the county in which such 
district is situate, and the other copy he shall transmit to 
the state commissioner of common schools at Columbus; 
and the examiner so appointed and performing the duties His compensa- 
herein required, shall receive as compensation a per diem 
of five dollars for each day necessarily engaged in the per- 
formance of his duties, and shall also receive five cents 
for each mile by him necessarily traveled in that behalf; 
but no mileage shall be allowed for a greater distance than 
from Columbus to such district; and such compensation and fher^o?^ 
mileage shall be paid out of the county treasury upon the 
warrant of the county auditor, and if the investigation 
establish the truth of any material allegation in such com- 
plaint, then such amount so paid shall be assessed by the 
county auditor upon the taxable property of the district, 
to be cellected as other taxes are for the use of such county 
treasurer. 

Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in force 
from and after its passage. 

A. G. REYNOLDS, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
JNO. A. CALDWELL, 

President of the Senate. 

Passed April 16, 1900. 



"Centralization" 
defined. 



[House Bill No. 487.] 
AN ACT 

To provide for the centraliaztion of township schools and provide 
a high school for the same. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
Section 1. For the purposes of this act the word 
"centralization" is hereby defined as a system of schools 
in a township providing for the abolishment of all sub- 
districts and the conveyance of pupils to one or more central 
schools. 

Section 2. A township board of education may submit submission of 
the question of centralization, and upon the petition of not ^raUzatfon. ^^" 
less than one-fourth of the qualified electors of such town- 
ship district, must submit such question to a vote of the 
qualified electors of such township district, and if more 



20 



Conduct of elec- 
tion. 



Submission of 
question of issu- 
ing bonds. 



Board of educa- 
tion ; election 
and term. 



votes are cast in favor of centralization than against it, 
at such election, it shall then become the duty of the board of 

education, and such board of educaion is required to pro- 
ceed at once to the centralization of schools of the township 
and if necessary, purchase a site or sites and erect a suitable 
building or buildings thereon; provided, that if, at the said 
election, more votes are cast against the proposition for 
centralization than for it, the question shall not again be 
submitted to the electors of said township district for a 
period of two years. 

Section 3. All elections ordered by a board of educa- 
tion in pursuance of section two of this act shall be held at 
the usual place or places of holding township elections, at 
a regular or special election as may be determined by the 
board and notice shall be given and the election conducted 
in all respects as provided by law for the election of township 
officers, and the ballots shall have printed thereon: "For 
centralization — Yes." **For centralization — ^No." 

Section 4. Should the board of education deem it 
necessary to issue bonds to purchase a site or sites or erect 
a building or buildings for the purpose of such centraliza- 
tion, then the election shall be conducted as provided in 
section three of this act, but in such case the ballots shall 

have printed thereon: 'Tor levying a tax to purchase 

site (or sites) and erect building (or buildings) for 

the centralization of schools at a cost not to exceed | 

yes." '*F'or levying a tax to purchase — site (or 

sites) and erect building (or buildings) for the cen- 
tralization of schools at a cost not to exceed | 



— , no." 

and if more votes are cast in favor of levying said tax for 
said purpose than against said proposition, at such election,, 
it shall be the duty of the said boad of education, and the 
board of education is authorized to issue bonds and sell the 
same as provided by law and to levy a special tax to provide 
for the payment of the same together with interest thereon; 
provided, said levy shall not in any one year exceed five 
mills on the dollar valuation and said bonds shall not bear 
more than six per cent, interest and shall not be sold at 
less than their face value. 

Section 5. In a township . district in which proceed- 
ings have been had under the preceding sections of this act 
and the vote has been favorable for centralization, there 
shall be an election held on the next succeeding first Mon- 
day of April for the election of a board of education, con- 
isisting of five members elected at large in said township dis- 
trict; one of whom shall serve three years, two for two 
years and two for one year; and two members shall be 
elected annually thereafter for a term of three years, except 
every third year but one shall be elected for three years. 
Said election shall be held at the annual voting place or 
places in said township, by the regular election officers and 
shall be conducted in all respects as provided by law for 
the election of township officers; provided, there shall be a 



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separate ballot box, poll books and tally sheets, and said 
election officers shall receive no extra compensation for 
such services. 

Section 6. Upon the election, qualification and organ- Abolishment of 
ization of the board of education provided for in section five boaTdrA^s^suf- 
of this act, the board of education previously existing in lessor. 
said township district shall cease to exist and the same is 
hereby abolished and the board of education provided for 
in this act shall be considered the successor of the former 
township board. 

Section 7. The clerk of the township shall be ex Township cierk 
officio member of the board of education, provided for by ber°of"Sa™d?ud 
this act and shall be clerk thereof; the treasurer of the Township trea- 
township shall be ex officio treasurer of the board of educa-- surer ex-officio 

• til '111 11 treasurer of 

tion; provided, that in all other respects the law govern- board. 

ing village boards of education shall govern and control ^vtri^b^ard. 

all boards of education organized as provided by this act. 

Section 8. Boards of education in township districts course of in- 

1 ....... . F . struction. 

organized as provided for by this act are required to main- 
tain and support a graded course of instruction, and may 
include a high school course of not less than two years; 
they are also required to furnish transportation to and from Transportation 
school, to all pupils living more than three-fourths ot a °^p"p^^^- 
mile from the central building, said distance to be measured 
from the enclosure immediately surrounding their residence 
to the school-house property, along the nearest public 
highway. 

Section 9. This act shall take effect and be in force 
from and after its passage. 

A. G. REYNOLDS, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
JNO. A. CALDWELL, 

President of the Senate. 
Passed April 16, 1900. 



[Senate Bill No. 194.] 

AN ACT 

To supplement section 3751 of the Revised Statutes. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 

Section 1. That the following sections be enacted as colleges, etc.: 
supplemental to section 3751 of the Revised Statutes ?nd 
with the sectional numbering as herein provided: 

Sec. 3751-6. A corporation may be formed for the incorporation of 
promotion of academic, collegiate or university education, e^cieffastTcaf'^ 
under religious influences, and is hereby authorized and PrtSesfhau''''^ 
empowered to set forth in its articles, or certificate of cor- contain, 
poration, as a part of the same, the name of the religious 
sect, association or denomination with which it proposes 



22 



Existing corpor- 
ations may avail 
themselves of 
provisions of 
act ; how. 



to be connected, and it is further authorized and empowered 
to grant any ecclesiastical body of such religious sect, asso- 
ciation or denomination, whether the same be a conference,, 
association, presbytery, synod, general assembly, convoca- 
tion or otherwise, the right to appoint its trustees or direc- 
tors, or any number thereof; and it is further authorized 
and empowered to set forth in its articles or certificate of 
corporation, such other rights as to the administration of 
the purpose for which it is organized, and not inconsistent 
with the laws of this state or of the United States, as said 
incorporation may desire to confer upon said ecclesiastical 
body of such religious sect, association or denomination 
and the said ecclesiastical body of such religious sect, associ- 
ation or denomination shall possess and exercise all rights 
and powers so set forth in said articles, or certificate of 
corporation. 

Sec. 8751-c. Any corporation formed for the promo- 
tion of academic, collegiate or university education, under 
religious influences, which has been incorporated under the 
laws of this state, whether by special act of the legislature 
or otherwise, may avail itself of the provisions of the pre- 
ceding section, as a part of its articles or certificate of 
incorporation, and may confer on any ecclesiastical body 
of such religious sect, association or denomination, as it is 
now, or proposes to be connected with, whether the same 
be a conference, association, presbytery, synod, general 
assembly, convocation or otherwise, any or all of the rights^ 
powers or privileges provided by the preceding sectioh 
to be conferred on corporations hereafter organized, and 
may accept the provisions of such preceding section by a 
vote of the majority of the trustees of such corporation at 
any regular meeting; and when so accepted, a copy of said 
?iSont(f be filed acceptance, certified by the secretary or clerk of its board 
of trustees or directors, shall be sent to the ecclesiastical 
body with which it is now or proposes to be connected; 
if such ecclesiastical body agree to accept the powers pro- 
posed to be conferred upon it, it shall certify its approval 
upon such certified copy sent to it, and the same shall there- 
upon be filed in the office of the secretary of state; and, 
when so filed, the same shall become and be a part of the 
charter of said corporation; and said ecclesiastical body of 
such religious sect, association or denomination, whether 
the same be a conference, association, presbytery, synod, 
general assembly, convocation or otherwise, shall possess 
and exercise all the rights and powers sO' set forth in said 
articles of certificate of corporation. 

Section 2. This act shall take effect from and after its 



Copy of accept- 



with secretary 
of state. 



passage. 



A. G. REYNOLDS, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
O. SHEPPARD, 
President pro tern, of the Senate, 
Passed April 16, 1900. 



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[Senate Bill No. 244.] 

AN ACT 

To amend section 4017 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio by supple- 
mentary section 4017a. 

Section 1. That section 4017 of the Revised Statutes 
of Ohio be supplemented by section 4017a. 

Sec. 4017a. Each board of education may employ a Employment of 
teacher or teachers whose duty it shall be to give instruc- mSSc • SLrd to 
tion and training in vocal music to the youth of all the ancel^^ndb^ooks 
schools of the district, and said board is empowered to pur- 
chase and supply all appliances and books necessary to the 
proper pusuit of such branch of study. 

Section 2. That this act shall take effect and be in 
force frorn and after its passage. 

A. G. REYNOLDS, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
JNO. A. CALDWELL, 

President of the Senate. 
Passed April 16, 1900. 



[Senate Bill No. 58.] 

AN ACT 

To amend section 6969 of the Revised Statutes of Onio. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 

Section 1. That section 6969 of the Revised Statutes ^fbiif %1uf -"^^^ 
of Ohio be amended so as to read as follows: ^" 

Sec. 6969. It shall be unlawful for any person holding officer or agent 
any office of trust or profit in this state, either by election hltires^te'd^in''' 
or appointment, or any agent, servant or employe of such of"Se^^^°^"^^ 
officer, or of a board of such officers to become directly or 
indirectly interested in any contract for the purchase of any 
property, supplies or fire insurance for the use of the 
county, township, city, village, hamlet, board of education 
or public institution with which he is connected. And it 
shall be unlawful for any such person, a/jent, clerk, ser- 
vant or employe to become interested in any contract for 
the purchase of property, supplies or fire insurance for the 
use of any county, township, city, village, hamlet, board 
of education or public institution with which he is [not] 
connected when the amount of such contract exceeds the 
sum of fifty dollars, unless the contract is let on compet- 
itive bids, duly advertised as provided by law. Any per- 
son violating the provisions of this act shall be imprisoned 
in the penitentiary not more than ten years nor less than 
one year. 

Section 2. Said original section 6969 of the Revised Repeals. 
Statutes of Ohio be and the same is hereby repealed. 



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Section 3. This act shall take effect and be in force 
from and after its passage. 

A. G. REYNOLDS, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
O. SHEPPARD, 
President pro tern, of the Senate. 
Passed April 16, 1900. 



School funds : 



iMaximum levy. 



[Senate Bill No. 16.] 

AN ACT 

To amened an act entitled "An act to amend section 3959 of the 
Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended April 10, 1896," 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
Section 1. That section 3959 of the Revised Statutes 
as amended April 10, 1896, be amended to read as follows: 
Sec. 3959. Such estimate and levy shall not exceed, 
in cities of the first grade of the first class, three and one- 
fourth mills, provided, however, that the boards of educa- 
tion in said cities -may levy one mill additional for every 
five thousand pupils over and above twenty-five thousand 
enrolled in the public schools of said cities, which levy, 
however, shall in no case exceed four and one tenth mills; 
and in cities of the second grade of the first class such 
estimate and levy shall not exceed eight mills on the dollar 
of valuation of taxable property for the year 1900, nor 
more than seven mills on the dollar of valuation of taxable 
property thereafter; provided, however, that boards of 
education in said cities of the second grade of the first class 
may levy, for the year 1900, in addition to the eight mills 
aforesaid, and thereafter may levy in addition to the seven 
mills, a tax not to exceed one mill on the dollar of valua- 
tion of taxable property within said district which said 
levy shall be used for the purchase of school-house sites 
and the erection of school buildings thereon and for no 
other purpose whatever, and for the purpose of paying for 
such sites or for the construction of such buildings such 
boards of education may issue certificates of indebtedness 
in anticipation of such levy, payable at such times not 
exceeding one year from date of issue as they may des- 
ignate, but bearing no interest before maturity. And in 
all other districts, except those hereinafter named, such 
estimate and levy shall not exceed seven mills on each 
-dollar of valuation of taxable property; provided, however, 
that in counties con taining a city of the first grade of the 
first class, in districts outside such city in which a high 
school is maintained, and in all special and village districts 
of any county in the state, such estimate and levy shall not 
exceed eight mills on each dollar of valuation of taxable 



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Submission of 
question of 
greater levy. 



property; but a geater tax than is authorized above, except 
in city districts of the first class, may be levied for either 
of the purposes specified in section 3958 if the proposition 
to make such levy shall have been first submitted by the 
board of education to a vote of the electors of the school 
district, under a resolution prescribing the time, place and 
manner of voting on the same, and approved by two- 
thirds of those voting on the proposition, notice of which 
election must be given by publication of the resolution for 
three consecutive weeks prior thereto in some newspaper 
published and of general circulation in the district, or by 
posting copies thereof in five of the most conspicuous 
places in the district, for a like period if no such paper is 
published therein. 

Section 2. Section 3959 of the Revised Statutes, as Repeals, 
amended April 10, 1896, is hereby repealed and this act shall 
take effect on its passage. 

A. G. REYNOLDS, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 



Passed April 16, 1900. 



O. SH'EPPARD, 

President pro tc?n. of the Senate. 



[Senate Bill No. 283.] 

AN ACT 

To amend an act entitled "An act requiring instruction in the com- 
mon schools and in certain educational institutions, as to the 
effect of alcoholic drinks and narcotics on the human system," 
passed by the general assembly of Ohio, April 13, 1888. 
Vol. 85, Ohio Laws, 213.) 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
Section 1. The nature of alcoholic drinks and other 
narcotics, and their effects on the human system, in con- 
nection with the various divisions of physiology and 
hygiene, shall be included in the branches to be regularly 
taught in the common schools of the state, and in all educa- 
tional institutions supported wholly, or in part, by money 
from the state; and it shall be the duty of boards of educa- 
tion, and boards of such educational institutions to make 
suitable provisions for this instruction in the schools and 
institutions under their respective jurisdiction, giving clel- 
inite time and place for this branch in the regular course 
of study; and to adopt such methods as will adapt the same 
to the capacity of pupils in the various grades; and to cor- 
responding classes as found in ungraded schools; the same 
tests for promotion shall be required in this as in other 
branches. 

Section- 2. In all teachers' institutes, also in all nor- 
mal schools and teachers' training classes which shall here- 
after be established bv the state, adequate time and attention 



Instruction as 
to effect of al- 
coholic drinks 
on the human 
system, required 
in public 
schools. 



Provision there- 
for. 



Instruction of 
teachers. 



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Examination of 
teachers re- 
quired. 



Duty of commis- 
sioner of com- 
mon schools. 



Penalty for fail- 
ure to give such 
instruction. 



Repeals. 



shall be given to instruction in the best methods of teaching 
this branch. No certificate shall be granted to any person 
to teach in the common schools, or in any educational 
institution supported as aforesaid who does not .pass a satis- 
factory examination on this subject, and the best methods 
of teaching the same. It shall be the duty of the state 
commissioner of common schools to see that the provisions 
in this section relating to county teachers' institutes, and 
schoOiS and classes by wiiatever name bereafer established 
for training teachers, and the examination of teachers, are 
carried out; and said commissioner shall, each year, make 
full report of the enforcement of said section in connection 
with his annual report. 

Section 3. Any school official, or any employe in any 
way concerned, in the enforcement of this act, who wilfully 
refuses or neglects to provide for, or to give the instruction 
required by this act, shall be fined, and shall pay for each 
offense the sum of twenty-five dollars. Mayors, justices of 
the peace and probate judges shall have concurrent juris- 
diction with the common pleas court to try the offenses 
described in this act and all fines, or penalties, collected 
under this act shall be paid into the general county school 
fund of the county in which such fine or penalty was col- 
lected. 

Section 4. That an act entitled "An act requiring 
instruction in the common schools and in certain educa- 
tional institutions, of the effect of alcoholic drinks and nar- 
cotics on the human system," passed by the general 
assembly of Ohio April 13, 1888 (85 vol. Ohio Law, 213), 
be, and the same is hereby repealed. 

Section 5. This act shall take effect and be in force 
from and after its passage. 

A. G. REYNOLDS, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
O. SHEPPARD, 
President pro tern, of the Senate. 

Passed April 16, 1900. 



[Senate Bill No. 63. 

AN ACT 



Colleges and 
universities : 



When and how 
tax shall be 
l«evied, 



To amend section 4104 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
Section 1. That section 4104 of the Revised Statutes 
of Ohio be amended so as to read as follows: 

Sec. 4104. In cities of the first grade of the first class 
where there are universities supported in whole or in part 
by public taxation upon the property of such city, the board 
of education of the citv shall, upon the application of said 



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board of directors of such universities, assess and lew a 
tax on the taxable property of the city, not less than nor 
more than three-tenths of one mill on the dollar valuation 
thereof, to be applied by the board of directors to the 
support of such university, college, or institution, and the 
board of education shall also assess and levy, annually, not 
less than three-hundredths nor more than five hundredths 
of one mill on the dollar of such valuation, for the estab- 
lishment and maintenance of an astronomical observatory 
in connection with such university, cohege or institution, 
the proceeds of which shall be paid to the board of directors, 
and applied by them for said purpose exclusively. 

Section 2. That the original section 4104 be and Repeals, 
hereby is repealed, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent 
with this act are declared void as to such inconsistency, but 
not otherwise. 

Section 3. This act shall take effect and be in force 
from and after its passage. 

A. G. REYNOLDS, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
JNO. A. CALDWELL, 

President of the Senate. 

Passed April 16, 1900. 



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